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the jsomers.net blog
Most book clubs are doing it wrong The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk...
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over a year ago
The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk about it. You have one meeting per book. The discussion goes on for one or two hours before it runs out of gas, and then the group picks the next book, and you agree to meet […]
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Blog Posts vs. Social Posts From Emil Kowalski’s newsletter (my Feedbin cache for your convenience): I started writing more blog...
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10 months ago
From Emil Kowalski’s newsletter (my Feedbin cache for your convenience): I started writing more blog posts recently. I like it because it's different than X. You get a spike of views when you share something on X, but that dies off quickly. If you provide great value with your...
Blog System/5
Revisiting the NetBSD build system I recently picked up an embedded project in which I needed to build a highly customized full system...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I recently picked up an embedded project in which I needed to build a highly customized full system image with minimal boot times and NetBSD was the best choice for it. Let's look at why its build system helps.
James Vaughan's blog
Systemd Timers as a Cron Alternative
over a year ago
HTMHell
#23 A card pattern Bad code <article> <div> <div class="sr-only">Image</div> <img src="/feature-teaser.png"...
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Bad code <article> <div> <div class="sr-only">Image</div> <img src="/feature-teaser.png" alt="Feature teaser" /> </div> </article> <div> <span> <span>Exciting feature!</span> </span> <div> This text describes what the feature does! </div> <a...
HTMHell
Starting off right: Where autofocus shines by Kilian Valkhof Focus is where the user is on your website. It's what makes it possible to...
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7 months ago
by Kilian Valkhof Focus is where the user is on your website. It's what makes it possible to navigate your site with the keyboard or other assistive technologies, and it's how a browser knows which form element you're typing in. It's vital to get right if you want to build good...
Irrational...
Benchmarking. Many of the most important questions for running an organization don’t have clear answers. In most...
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a year ago
Many of the most important questions for running an organization don’t have clear answers. In most engineering organizations, both the teams working on infrastructure and the teams working on product feel they are undersized. It’s also true that most individuals feel they are...
Kagi Blog
Kagi passes an independent security audit Over the course of May - August 2022, Kagi has undergone an extensive security audit by Illumant (...
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Over the course of May - August 2022, Kagi has undergone an extensive security audit by Illumant ( https://www.illumant.com ) , an independent security auditor.
A Beautiful Site
Bulletproof Components Somewhere buried in my dusty basement lives a signed copy of Dan Cederholm's classic book...
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over a year ago
Somewhere buried in my dusty basement lives a signed copy of Dan Cederholm's classic book Bulletproof Web Design. I purchased it during my first trip to An Event Apart in 2007. This book meant a lot to me back then, and almost 15 years later, many of its concepts still hold...
Ink & Switch
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Early Stage Company Offsites this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
9 months ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware December 2024 The ware for December 2024 is a 2mm pitch, 64×64 LED panel purchased from Evershine Opto Limited....
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The ware for December 2024 is a 2mm pitch, 64×64 LED panel purchased from Evershine Opto Limited. Their sales part number is ES-P2-I, but the silkscreen says DCHY-P2-6464-1515-VP. The seller is just the name slapped on the box; like most commodity wares, there’s likely multiple...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I Moved Off Dev.to 2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just...
over a year ago
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2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode.
Irrational...
Running your engineering onboarding program. Most companies say that it takes three to six months for newly hired engineers to fully ramp...
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over a year ago
Most companies say that it takes three to six months for newly hired engineers to fully ramp up. Engineering leaders know it’s impolitic to admit that it takes their team longer than three to six months to onboard new engineers, so that’s what they say out loud, but they...
Steve Klabnik
Docember
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
a11y-syntax-highlighting has been updated I created the a11y-syntax-highlighting library seven years ago, forked from xiaozi’s...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I created the a11y-syntax-highlighting library seven years ago, forked from xiaozi’s solarized-prism-theme for PrismJS. To not bury the lede, the new update: Supports Forced Colors mode, Is encapsulated in a Cascade Layer, Uses Custom Properties, Groups its selectors using the...
Blog - Bitfield...
If you need the money, don't take the job Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to be worth what you're...
a year ago
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a year ago
Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to be worth what you're asking. Some real talk about the challenges you’ll face as a newly independent worker.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Thoughts from “Meet Safari for Spatial Computing” I just watched Apple’s “Meet Safari for Spatial Computing” where they talk about how Safari works on...
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I just watched Apple’s “Meet Safari for Spatial Computing” where they talk about how Safari works on the new visionOS and what you can do to make your web pages look great on Apple’s new device. tl;dr just keeping doing what responsive web design and accessibility experts have...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Keyboard First I enjoyed listening to [Des and Paul's discussion of keyboard-first apps on their podcast...
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I enjoyed listening to [Des and Paul's discussion of keyboard-first apps on their podcast today](https://art19.com/shows/intercom-on-product/episodes/10ee6fbe-13ef-48c6-af5e-3477bdbe87e3). They discussed the rise of the `cmd+K` UI paradigm in apps like:
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 1 Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs Intro When I was around 8-9 years old, I...
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over a year ago
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs Intro When I was around 8-9 years old, I received a Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer for my birthday. One of my earliest memories I remember is sitting with my Dad, reading the manual to work out the magic commands to load...
Maggie Appleton
November 2022
over a year ago
Grant Slatton
Nobody Cares A rant about caring
9 months ago
Alex MacCaw
The six principles of lifestyle businesses Let's talk about what makes a great lifestyle business.
over a year ago
Oxide Computer...
A Gap in the TrustZone preset settings for the LPC55S69 We’re very excited to have announced the general availability of our cloud computer. As part of this...
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We’re very excited to have announced the general availability of our cloud computer. As part of this work, we continue to build on top of the LPC55S69 from NXP as our Root of Trust. We’ve discovered some gaps when using TrustZone preset settings on the LPC55S69 that can allow for...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Day I Became A Software Engineer A single mindset shift that changed my entire attitude to software.
over a year ago
37signals Dev
The gift of constraints One of the hardest things about shipping products is balancing this contradiction: you want to do...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
One of the hardest things about shipping products is balancing this contradiction: you want to do the best possible work everywhere, but optimizing every piece takes time, and time is finite. I’ve done a poor job here countless times in my career. And I have seen many others...
MMapped blog
ckBTC internals: event log
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
Connecting CPython's GC Internals to Real-World Performance Learn how the knowledge of CPython internals translate into performance insights for your code
9 months ago
The Changelog
Consider Security First I write this in the context of my decision to ditch Raspberry Pi OS and move everything I possibly...
a year ago
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a year ago
I write this in the context of my decision to ditch Raspberry Pi OS and move everything I possibly can, including my Raspberry Pi devices, to Debian. I will write about that later. But for now, I wanted to comment on something I think is often overlooked and misunderstood by...
Liz Denys
Rising sea levels, eroding beaches, melting ice caps When I was glazing this v60-style cone, I was thinking of rising sea levels, eroding beaches, and...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
When I was glazing this v60-style cone, I was thinking of rising sea levels, eroding beaches, and melting ice caps. Trying to tackle large challenges like climate change is overwhelming in the best of times, and these are not the best of times. There are many things we can...
The Changelog
Rehabilitating Asynchronous Communication with NNCP: A Cross Between Tor, ssh, and UUCP Have you ever been traveling, shot a ton of photos and videos, but were annoyed to find it was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Have you ever been traveling, shot a ton of photos and videos, but were annoyed to find it was saturating the terrible wifi you had access to? Maybe you’d wish the upload to pause until you get somewhere else, but then pausing syncing on your Nextcloud/Syncthing/Dropbox would...
Daniel Marino
My GIF Workflow Using Eleventy, Netlify, and Alfred I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would...
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over a year ago
I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would serve content as HTML from this directory. This was a simple way to share my GIFs with the world. I even adopted an Alfred workflow for quickly searching and copying my GIFs URL to the...
Steve Klabnik
Extracting domain models: a practical example
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
The Big Cloud Exit FAQ Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then shared our complete...
a year ago
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a year ago
Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then shared our complete $3.2 million cloud budget for 2022, and the fact that we were going to build our own tooling rather than pay for overpriced enterprise service contracts. The mission was set! A month...
A Smart Bear
"Stealth mode" and other f'ing brilliant strategies Oh you secretive devil! The last thing you need is anyone finding out about your startup. Like...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Oh you secretive devil! The last thing you need is anyone finding out about your startup. Like competitors. Or customers.
ByteofDev
State of the Web: WebAssembly What is WebAssembly, why does it matter, and how is it currently used on the web?
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Drawing repetitive radial artworks I was waiting for a meeting to start the other day, and I was idly doodling in my notebook. I’d just...
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I was waiting for a meeting to start the other day, and I was idly doodling in my notebook. I’d just had a text from a friend about an upcoming trip to Ireland, and she’d sent me the four-leafed clover emoji (🍀), so I was sketching some petal-like shapes. These are a few of my...
swyx's site RSS Feed
September 11th from Singapore just some memories 20 years after 9/11.
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
The HTML5 download attribute Years ago I showed you how to force a file to download with PHP. Now with HTML5, you [almost] don't...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Years ago I showed you how to force a file to download with PHP. Now with HTML5, you [almost] don't have to do that anymore. The HTML5 download attribute is intended to tell the browser that a certain link should force a certain file to download, optionally with a certain name...
David Crawshaw
2014-04-18 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
over a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
CSS Variables for React Devs CSS variables are *really* cool, and they're incredibly powerful when it comes to React! This...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
CSS variables are *really* cool, and they're incredibly powerful when it comes to React! This tutorial shows how we can use them with React to create dynamic themes. We'll see how to get the most out of CSS-in-JS tools like styled-components, and how our mental frame around media...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How we made our pre-commit check 7x faster As a guy who's somewhat responsible for a large chunk of front-end development infrastructure at our...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As a guy who's somewhat responsible for a large chunk of front-end development infrastructure at our company, I've spent the last couple of months woried about the performance of our pre-commit checks. We have around 50 projects on a standard react + typescript stack, and a...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The really important job interview questions engineers should ask (but don't) Since we started PostHog, our team has interviewed 725 people. What's one thing I've taken from...
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over a year ago
Since we started PostHog, our team has interviewed 725 people. What's one thing I've taken from this? It's normal for candidates not to ask harder…
A Smart Bear
"I scratched my own itch" isn't good enough This isn't the humble-brag you think it is; The most common origin story is also common to startups...
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4 months ago
This isn't the humble-brag you think it is; The most common origin story is also common to startups that fail. But it's a start.
Words and Buttons...
The Real C++ Killers (Not You, Rust) All the “C++ killers”, even these which I wholeheartedly love and respect like Rust, Julia, and D,...
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All the “C++ killers”, even these which I wholeheartedly love and respect like Rust, Julia, and D, help you write more features with fewer bugs, but they don't much help when you need to squeeze the very last FLOPS from the hardware you rent. As such, they don’t have a...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Extreme #include discipline for C++ code C++ takes long to compile There is more than one reason for it but one of the reasons is excessive...
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over a year ago
C++ takes long to compile There is more than one reason for it but one of the reasons is excessive re-parsing of the same .h header files. In SumatraPDF I’m using an extreme #include discipline to keep compilation times in check. The rule is simple: a .h file cannot #include...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Digital photos and privacy Making sure your digital photos aren't leaking your location or other information is one of the most...
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over a year ago
Making sure your digital photos aren't leaking your location or other information is one of the most important technology-related privacy issues influencing your physical safety, so make sure to catch the latest episode of Loose Leaf Security: Digital photos and privacy Digital...
HTMHell
Past HTML, Future HTML? by Jens Oliver Meiert Consider the following HTML document: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML...
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by Jens Oliver Meiert Consider the following HTML document: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 1996-01//EN"> <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <p class="Author"> <h1></h1> <P> <P> <H2></H2> <P> <UL> <LI> <LI> ...
A Beautiful Site
Is your product the reason your startup is failing? The idea of launching a product, running your own business, and being your own boss is very...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The idea of launching a product, running your own business, and being your own boss is very appealing. Perhaps that's why so many people risk doing it. The problem is, many of them don't succeed. There are hundreds of reasons a startup can fail, but let's focus on one for a...
The Changelog
Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now Note: This post is also available on my webiste, where it will be periodically updated. As I’ve been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: This post is also available on my webiste, where it will be periodically updated. As I’ve been thinking and writing about privacy and decentralization lately, I had a conversation with a colleague this week, and he commented about how loss of privacy is related to loss of...
The Pragmatic...
The Big Tech Hiring Slowdown Is Here and it will Hurt Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon have all dramatically slowed or frozen hiring. How will this...
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over a year ago
Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon have all dramatically slowed or frozen hiring. How will this impact the rest of the tech industry?
Joel Gascoigne
Fear of not shipping * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "I’ve had many...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "I’ve had many many many products, the vast majority of the things I’ve written, or created, the organisations I built fail, but the reason I’ve managed a modicum of success is because I just...
Liz Denys
Notes on pandemic eats, March to mid-October 2020 I became vegetarian in February. It was a really, really long time coming, and becoming vegetarian...
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over a year ago
I became vegetarian in February. It was a really, really long time coming, and becoming vegetarian before the start of a pandemic was really convenient. Few things beat having a bunch of dried beans, lentils, and veggies plus a bunch of rice on in my pantry while you're figuring...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Reloading a Document (and Preserving Query String Parameters) Using Only HTML tl;dr: an empty string for your link, e.g. <a href="">Reload</a> The other day I was trying to write...
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tl;dr: an empty string for your link, e.g. <a href="">Reload</a> The other day I was trying to write some HTML to give the user the ability to reload the document in its exact state by clicking on a link (same functionality as if they hit CMD + R on their keyboard, or clicked...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes...
a year ago
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Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to marketing to engineers . Paid ads is a…
David Heinemeier...
Omarchy is out My latest love letter to Linux has been published. It's called Omarchy, and it's an opinionated...
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a week ago
My latest love letter to Linux has been published. It's called Omarchy, and it's an opinionated setup of the Arch Linux distribution and the Hyprland tiling window manager. With everything configured out-of-the-box to give you exactly the same setup that I now run every day. My...
Liz Denys
Triggering videos, thoughtful content warnings, and responsible feature release policies Content warning: police murder of black people We need to talk about potentially triggering videos...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Content warning: police murder of black people We need to talk about potentially triggering videos and social media. Social media is nearly unavoidable. There's a lot of upsides to using it, such as keeping up with family and friends you can't see frequently and reaching out to...
bt RSS Feed
Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS) Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS) 2020-03-31 In a previous article I wrote, Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menus, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS) 2020-03-31 In a previous article I wrote, Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menus, I showed how you could create a basic menu dropdown with only 121 bytes of CSS. While this demo is great for simple text-based menu dropdowns, it doesn’t show just how complex (in a...
Quentin Santos
Upgrading to Debian Trixie I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other words, Trixie has now been testing for more than a year, and will most likely become the new stable in less than a year. In the past, I encountered a few surprises with unstable …...
The Pragmatic...
Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor: this is how companies respond Several tech companies face a fresh problem after cutting jobs: their rating on Glassdoor nosedives....
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Several tech companies face a fresh problem after cutting jobs: their rating on Glassdoor nosedives. But there’s a way they can fix this. I show what companies are doing - and why.
Eric Bailey
Basic keyboard shortcut support for focused links This is one of those cases where circumstances at my job led to needing to document expected...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
This is one of those cases where circumstances at my job led to needing to document expected behavior in order to create “synthetic” links via JavaScript. Sometimes this sort of thing is regrettably unavoidable. A large part of the effort was capturing all the different actions...
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]
over a year ago
Yale e360
Paper review: The Gamma Database Project Last week, I read "The Gamma Database Project" for a Red Book reading group. Unlike the last paper...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last week, I read "The Gamma Database Project" for a Red Book reading group. Unlike the last paper for this group, this one was a lot more approachable in length: 19 pages. I'm putting up some of my notes here from reading the paper. If you read through to the end, there's...
Yale e360
Impact of remote-code execution vulnerability in LangChain One of my private repos depends on LangChain, so I got a lovely email from GitHub this...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of my private repos depends on LangChain, so I got a lovely email from GitHub this morning: Ooh, a high severity remote-code execution vulnerability in LangChain? On the one hand, I'm not entirely shocked that a framework that includes the ability to run LLM-generated code...
Josh Comeau's blog
Understanding Layout Algorithms As front-end developers, we often learn CSS by focusing on individual properties. Instead, we should...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As front-end developers, we often learn CSS by focusing on individual properties. Instead, we should focus on how the language uses those properties to calculate layouts. In this blog post, we'll pop the hood on CSS and see how the language is structured, and how to learn it...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Solving the mystery of PostHog’s missing session recordings Session Recording is one of PostHog's core features, and one of the few completely open source...
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over a year ago
Session Recording is one of PostHog's core features, and one of the few completely open source ression replay tools available. It allows you to see…
Computer Things
I've been thinking about tradeoffs all wrong Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible...
a year ago
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a year ago
Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible jetlag but also itching to get writing again, so let's go. The opening keynote to the conference was called "Modern Tradeoff Analysis for Software Architecture". It was mostly about...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The 9 best GA4 alternatives for apps and websites In July 2023, Google closed Universal Analytics (UA), forcing users to switch to Google Analytics 4...
a year ago
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a year ago
In July 2023, Google closed Universal Analytics (UA), forcing users to switch to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) or another provider. This hasn't proved a…
A Day In The Life...
Let's talk about your privates Let's talk about your privates
over a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Make Beautiful Gradients Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This...
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over a year ago
Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This happens because of a mathematical quirk with RGB colors. Fortunately, we can work around this quirk, and create beautiful, lush, saturated gradients.
Julia Evans
Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering Here’s a niche terminal problem that has bothered me for years but that I never really understood...
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Here’s a niche terminal problem that has bothered me for years but that I never really understood until a few weeks ago. Let’s say you’re running this command to watch for some specific output in a log file: tail -f /some/log/file | grep thing1 | grep thing2 If log lines are...
Basta’s Notes
The state with the fancy plates Book typography-style serifs are for lovers
over a year ago
Irrational...
When to write strategy, and how much? Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the day to start writing engineering strategy. When you do start writing strategy, it’s easy write so much strategy that your organization is overwhelmed and ignores your strategy rather...
A Beautiful Site
CSS Parts Inspired by BEM In a previous post, I explored valid names for CSS parts and discovered that there are very few...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In a previous post, I explored valid names for CSS parts and discovered that there are very few restrictions in what you can call them. The purpose of that deep dive was to help identify a pattern for naming parts that lets me expose states and subparts, or parts exported as a...
Jibran’s Perspective
Cookie Based Auth for Django and NextJS If you’re just looking for implementation instructions, skip my ramblings and go straight to the...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you’re just looking for implementation instructions, skip my ramblings and go straight to the code here. I’m currently working on my first project after deciding that I needed to fail more and practice finishing projects instead of abandoning them midway once they got...
James Vaughan's blog
Thoughts on Qutebrowser
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Pointillism rose Sharpie on computer paper, Photoshop to brighten the colors.
over a year ago
blag
Recurse Center Day 19
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Building an open source data science publishing platform - An interview with Datapane CEO, Leo... (Welcome to another episode of PostHog's Community Conversations where we chat to our contributors...
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Accessibility annotation kits only annotate An uncomfortable truth is that the vast majority of access-related issues are created in the design...
a year ago
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a year ago
An uncomfortable truth is that the vast majority of access-related issues are created in the design phase. Accessibility annotation kits help tackle this problem, and in doing so lower the downstream issues that would be created without their presence. This is to say that I...
blag
Recurse Center Day 8: B Tree Fill Factor (Part 2) I found out the answer to B tree fill factor
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Retention rate vs churn rate: An intro to churn analysis Here's what you need to know about churn rate and retention rate: Churn rate is the percentage of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here's what you need to know about churn rate and retention rate: Churn rate is the percentage of customers who stop using your product during a…
Yale e360
Books I Read in 2018 Every year, GoodReads has a Reading Challenge, where you set how many books you want to read and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every year, GoodReads has a Reading Challenge, where you set how many books you want to read and record them as you go. This year, I got serious about it, and it was a wonderful motivational device. I set a goal of two books per month, and I just eked it out over the finish line,...
Marc Astbury
The Continuum of Design Where do we go from here? User centricity helped us build software, but what comes next? The past:...
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6 months ago
Where do we go from here? User centricity helped us build software, but what comes next? The past: the genius designer design through ideology Vignelli, Da Vinci, Le Corbusier etc. master designer will intuit problems and find solutions, a moment of genius designing with atoms...
Josh Collinsworth
For whatever it's worth: my advice on job hunting in tech A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for...
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A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for jobs, applying, interviewing, and all those fun things. For whatever it's worth.
PostHog's RSS Feed
When and how to run group-targeted A/B tests A/B tests are a powerful tool for measuring how product changes impact user behavior. However,...
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A/B tests are a powerful tool for measuring how product changes impact user behavior. However, sometimes changing how one user interacts with your…
Irrational...
Using cultural survey data. When I was at Stripe, I reworked the hiring process for Director-plus engineering managers. My goal...
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When I was at Stripe, I reworked the hiring process for Director-plus engineering managers. My goal was to better evaluate polished senior leaders who always said the right thing. I wanted to find the real beliefs and behaviors underneath all the polish. One interview focused on...
A Beautiful Site
If Edgar Allan Poe was into Design Systems Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, While I nodded, nearly napping,...
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, "'Tis a design system," I muttered, "bringing order to the core— Ah, distinctly I remember, every button, every splendor, Each component, standardized,...
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Language Servers are the New Frameworks Developer Experience is shifting left, all the way to onKeyUp.
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
We spent $3.3M buying out investors: Why and how we did it Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million – about...
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Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million – about half of all the cash we had in the bank – to buy out our main venture capital (VC) investors. Starting the conversations, negotiations, and process of this buy out was one
A Smart Bear
Distributed Logical Time Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is...
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Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is a simple, decentralized, scalable, constant-memory mechanism for independent replicas to record events in time, such that “happened-before” is preserved in almost all cases.
The Changelog
Make the Internet Yours Again With an Instant Mesh Network I’m going to lead with the technical punch line, and then explain it: Yggdrasil Network is an...
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I’m going to lead with the technical punch line, and then explain it: Yggdrasil Network is an opportunistic mesh that can be deployed privately or as part of a global-scale network. Each node gets a stable IPv6 address (or even an entire /64) that is derived from its public key...
Maggie Appleton
The Dark Forest and Generative AI Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content
over a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
The Importance of Learning CSS I know so many super-talented developers who share the same achilles heel: CSS. Instead of trying to...
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I know so many super-talented developers who share the same achilles heel: CSS. Instead of trying to “outrun” CSS, this article explores why leaning in and going deeper can be a tremendous boon for your development life and your career.
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Why you may not need a sales team You will need sales, but do you need a sales team to achieve revenue? Let's say you are the founder...
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You will need sales, but do you need a sales team to achieve revenue? Let's say you are the founder of a new tech startup. A few months back, you and…
Evan Jones -...
Huge Pages are a Good Idea Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to...
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Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to physical addresses. These translations are usually fast because the mappings are cached in the CPU's Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB). Unfortunately, virtual memory on x86 has...
Acko.net
Teardown Frame Teardown Rendering analysis In this post I'll do a "one frame" breakdown of Tuxedo Labs' indie game...
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Rendering analysis In this post I'll do a "one frame" breakdown of Tuxedo Labs' indie game Teardown. The game is unique for having a voxel-driven engine, which provides a fully destructible environment. It embraces this boon, by giving the player a multitude of tools that...
Blog System/5
From 0 to 1 MB in DOS A tour on how DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086
a year ago
charity.wtf
There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0 Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on November 19th, 2024 We’ve been talking about...
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Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on November 19th, 2024 We’ve been talking about observability 2.0 a lot lately; what it means for telemetry and instrumentation, its practices and sociotechnical implications, and the dramatically different shape of its cost model. With all...
alexwlchan
Launching a rocket in the worst possible way Last month, NASA made headlines as they (finally) launched their SLS rocket as part of the Artemis 1...
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Last month, NASA made headlines as they (finally) launched their SLS rocket as part of the Artemis 1 mission. The long and expensive development of SLS has been the subject of much debate, and caused a lot of online rage. I will now induce similar rage at a fraction of the...
Alice GG
Writing GDScript with Neovim Neovim is by far my favorite text editor. The clutter-free interface and keyboard-only navigation...
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Neovim is by far my favorite text editor. The clutter-free interface and keyboard-only navigation are what keep me productive in my daily programming. In an earlier post, I explained how I configure it into a minimalist development environment. Today, I will show you how to use...
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Why I Moved Off Dev.to 2 years ago I [moved all my blogging to Dev.to](https://www.swyx.io/devto-cms). Today [my main blog...
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2 years ago I [moved all my blogging to Dev.to](https://www.swyx.io/devto-cms). Today [my main blog is on Github Issues](https://www.swyx.io/github-cms) and [I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1531330889535602688).
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Recurse Center Day 17 Disk Storage I
over a year ago
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My New Mac Setup (2018-2020) quick checklist for setting up a new macbook
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Hacker News Clones Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News). I...
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Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News). I find out about it because my analytics digest will get a yuge uptick in page views. What’s interesting is all the referral sources that show up in my analytics. The Hacker News is...
Tinloof - Blog
A/B testing with Sanity and LaunchDarkly We’ll show in this demo how it’s possible to create and control A/B Tests using Sanity and...
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Ditching Google Chat with XMPP
over a year ago
MMapped blog
The numeric tower fiasco
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2024: this website is now built with wruby My...
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This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2024: this website is now built with wruby My personal website is now an RSS-focused blog, generated from a collection of plain text files. But before we get into greater details about the switch, let me first introduce the...
The Pragmatic...
Amazon doubling down on RTO (return to office) The tech giant is not blinking: after the unprecedented pushback on its 3-day return to office...
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The tech giant is not blinking: after the unprecedented pushback on its 3-day return to office policy last month, Amazon just made it clear that the policy is going ahead.
Liz Denys
One idle dreary day many years ago Every time I come across this photograph on my computer, I am impressed by how simultaneously dull...
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Every time I come across this photograph on my computer, I am impressed by how simultaneously dull and sharp the sky was that day in San Francisco. When editing this photograph I took now about three and a half years ago, I only flattened the sky slightly and didn't touch up the...
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Best Practice Open Source Repo Setup Quick and simple ways to set up Open Source Repos with Best Practices
over a year ago
Founder's blog
Will AI destroy B2B SaaS? TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy...
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TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy SaaS because it was cheaper than building their own. AI has changed that—building your own is now more affordable than ever. The discovery problem. ...
Sometimes It Works...
On AI doomerism So what's going on? This is a reflection on this post (of the same title) that I thoroughly enjoyed,...
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So what's going on? This is a reflection on this post (of the same title) that I thoroughly enjoyed, by Flavio Copes. "I am the genuine article, therefore I don't have to try. I just have to be. You, on the other hand, have to try any passing bandwagon, because what else have you...
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Lessons and Regrets from My $25000 Book Launch Reflections on the Coding Career book launch
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Buying the seller We've just moved the 37signals podcast to Buzzsprout. Podcast hosting is to some extent a commodity...
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We've just moved the 37signals podcast to Buzzsprout. Podcast hosting is to some extent a commodity market, so this was less about pining for a specific feature or even working to reduce the bill. This was about buying from Tom Rossi, the technical cofounder of HigherPixels (who...
A Beautiful Site
JavaScript functions for basename and dirname Here are two JavaScript functions that mimic their PHP cousins. basename() # function basename(path)...
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Here are two JavaScript functions that mimic their PHP cousins. basename() # function basename(path) { return path.replace(/.*\//, ''); } dirname() # function dirname(path) { return path.match(/.*\//); } Unlike their PHP cousins, these functions do not support paths...
Computer Things
Betteridge's Law of Software Engineering Specialness Logic for Programmers v0.8 now out! The new release has minor changes: new formatting for notes and...
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Logic for Programmers v0.8 now out! The new release has minor changes: new formatting for notes and a better introduction to predicates. I would have rolled it all into v0.9 next month but I like the monthly cadence. Get it here! Betteridge's Law of Software Engineering...
Sometimes It Works...
Code: Selfish Code: Selfish What it’s not What it is Be selfish ¶Code: Selfish I want to talk about coding...
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Code: Selfish What it’s not What it is Be selfish ¶Code: Selfish I want to talk about coding selfishly. This isn’t what you think. Coding selfishly is about assessing your motivations, your joys and coding in a way that brings you the most long-term value. It’s really a form of...
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Launching the Coding Career Handbook! I'm launching my career advice book today!
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we found our Ideal Customer Profile Creating an Ideal Customer Profile is one of the most important things we've ever done at PostHog....
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Creating an Ideal Customer Profile is one of the most important things we've ever done at PostHog. You can see it in our revenue growth: I wish we…
ntietz.com blog -...
Some things that make Rust lifetimes hard to learn After I wrote YARR (Yet Another Rust Resource, with requisite pirate mentions), one of my friends...
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4 months ago
After I wrote YARR (Yet Another Rust Resource, with requisite pirate mentions), one of my friends tried it out. He gave me some really useful insights as he went through it, letting me see what was hard about learning Rust from a newcomer's perspective. Unsurprisingly, lifetimes...
Liz Denys
Slack doesn't listen to its users. In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York...
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over a year ago
In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York Times: That feeling when you think "we should buy a full page in the Times and publish an open letter," and then you do. 💫 pic.twitter.com/BQiEawRA6d — Stewart Butterfield (@stewart)...
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The Coronavirus Recession and What it Means for Developers The US is probably going into recession - here's why I'm talking about it now, what it could look...
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over a year ago
The US is probably going into recession - here's why I'm talking about it now, what it could look like, what Devs can do to prepare, and why it's not the End of the World.
Sometimes It Works...
Why You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies “Nope! Composer is safe!” Adventure Time An...
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You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies “Nope! Composer is safe!” Adventure Time An Acceptable Risk What else can you do? Enter Ensemble ¶You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies I’ve got a little present for you: you’re enjoying a well-earned break from work!...
Neil Panchal
Dear Spotify. Can we just get a table of songs? Dear Spotify. I tried to search for podcasts on your Desktop app. I know you're into fancy...
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over a year ago
Dear Spotify. I tried to search for podcasts on your Desktop app. I know you're into fancy cross-platform Electron framework. I've come to terms with it. It's fine. It'll do. But, your understanding of interface design seems like it needs a bit
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Mimicry vs Reflexivity Two opposing forces that describe how perception and reality do battle.
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Putting history on the map &rarr; Back in July, we built an interactive map for the Flickr Commons Explorer. I wrote an article for...
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Back in July, we built an interactive map for the Flickr Commons Explorer. I wrote an article for the Flickr blog about some of the photos I found using the map – including Antarctic explorers, northern factories, and Hawaiian industry. [If the formatting of this post looks odd...
The Pragmatic...
Who is Still Hiring Software Engineers and EMs? 👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one...
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👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of five topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. To get this newsletter every week, subscribe here. This article was updated in December 2022. In the midst of gloomy
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4 Things I Learned from Mastering Mongoose.js A quick book review of the new Mongoose.js book from Val Karpov
over a year ago
Elad Blog
MegaCycles in Tech & Crypto Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology...
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Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology or platform would emerge, there would be rampant investment and speculation, a few strong hypergrowth survivors would emerge and most of the rest of the new startups would...
Josh Comeau's blog
The Surprising Truth About Pixels and Accessibility “Should I use pixels or rems?”. In this comprehensive blog post, we'll answer this question once and...
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“Should I use pixels or rems?”. In this comprehensive blog post, we'll answer this question once and for all. You'll learn about the accessibility implications, and how to determine the best unit to use in any scenario.
bt RSS Feed
Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky 2024-02-23 I often stumble upon large data sets or table...
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Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky 2024-02-23 I often stumble upon large data sets or table layouts across the web. When these tables contain hundreds of rows of content, things become problematic once you start to scroll… This should be a header Look at that table header...
David Heinemeier...
We tried that, didn’t work In our quest for making programming simpler, faster, and prettier, no logical fallacy provides as...
a year ago
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In our quest for making programming simpler, faster, and prettier, no logical fallacy provides as much of an obstacle as “we tried that, didn’t work”. The fallacy that past failed attempts dictates the scope of what's possible. That just because someone, somewhere, one time...
A Smart Bear
The Startup Drake Equation Why do smart, driven founders fail, despite having great ideas and execution? This model offers an...
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Why do smart, driven founders fail, despite having great ideas and execution? This model offers an answer, and a path to increase the chance of success.
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swyx in 2024 End of Year wraps i was involved in 3 end of year-ish recaps today:
6 months ago
Evan Jones -...
TCP and gRPC Failed Connection Timeouts After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I...
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After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I realized that I don't understand how TCP and gRPC handle failed connections. This article is my attempt to figure it out, and document it so I can find it again in the future. The best...
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Found-Money Startups 'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of...
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'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of Found-Money Startups and a short list I've been keeping.
Blog - Bitfield...
Cryptography in Go: AES explained AES is the modern standard encryption algorithm, but how does it work? Where does it come from?...
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a year ago
AES is the modern standard encryption algorithm, but how does it work? Where does it come from? Let’s kick the tyres with a high-level overview of AES internals.
Ink & Switch
Ink Note June 2023: Ink Studies Report This is a summary of what we think are the most salient studies that were done during this period.
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Supporting communities that empower women in technology Every year, TokyoDev conducts a survey of international developers living in Japan. In the last...
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over a year ago
Every year, TokyoDev conducts a survey of international developers living in Japan. In the last survey's results, published in December 2022, I explored [the connection between gender and compensation](/insights/2022-developer-survey#salary-by-gender). The results were...
David Crawshaw
log4j: between a rock and a hard place log4j: between a rock and a hard place 2021-12-11 What does backwards compatibility mean to...
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over a year ago
log4j: between a rock and a hard place 2021-12-11 What does backwards compatibility mean to me? Backwards compatibility should not have forced log4j to keep LDAP/JNDI URLs The other side of compatibility: being cautious adding features There is more than enough written on the...
Irrational...
Physics and perception. At one point in 2019, several parts of Stripe’s engineering organization were going through a polite...
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At one point in 2019, several parts of Stripe’s engineering organization were going through a polite civil war. The conflict was driven by one group’s belief that Java should replace Ruby. Java would, they posited, address the ongoing challenge of delivering a quality platform in...
Ralph Ammer
So… this is a job? What is Design? The post So… this is a job? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How to replace useState with useRef and be a winner React state is the bread and butter of a react app — it's what makes your app dynamic. React state...
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over a year ago
React state is the bread and butter of a react app — it's what makes your app dynamic. React state lives in useState, useReducer or in this.state of a class component, and changing it updates your app. But then there's a vast ocean of state not managed by React. This includes...
TokyoDev
The Downside of Thanking Security Contributors My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've...
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over a year ago
My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've occasionally gotten reports about security issues, and although we're a two-person company, we still take security seriously, so we decided to create security and responsible disclosure...
Vadim Kravcenko
🔥 Battling daily procrastination 🔥Procrastination is a serious threat. But what keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do?...
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over a year ago
🔥Procrastination is a serious threat. But what keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do? What […] The post 🔥 Battling daily procrastination appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
James Vaughan's blog
Tote bag
11 months ago
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Failing to use HSL to do Palette Theming Learning from Slack and Refactoring UI to create color palettes, then using HSL colors to do...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Learning from Slack and Refactoring UI to create color palettes, then using HSL colors to do customizable theming with CSS variables
Steve Klabnik
Protological Control: an introduction
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
We’re so back Under the old Twitter regime, politics seemed to seep into everything, especially tech talk. There...
a year ago
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a year ago
Under the old Twitter regime, politics seemed to seep into everything, especially tech talk. There was scarcely a programming or product topic that couldn’t be turned into a struggle session on account of some perceived transgression or privilege. It was, to use the trauma...
David Heinemeier...
Closing the borders alone won't fix the problems Denmark has been reaping lots of delayed accolades from its relatively strict immigration policy...
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Denmark has been reaping lots of delayed accolades from its relatively strict immigration policy lately. The Swedes and the Germans in particular are now eager to take inspiration from The Danish Model, given their predicaments. The very same countries that until recently...
David Heinemeier...
Don't lose your unreasonable sense of urgency Getting anything new off the ground usually requires a tremendous amount of urgency. It's hard to...
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a year ago
Getting anything new off the ground usually requires a tremendous amount of urgency. It's hard to launch something  from nothing into reality without being incredibly impatient for progress. Thus most founders begin 🎶Their Journey🎶 sprinting from one pressing problem to the...
macwright.com
Get the text of an uploaded file in Remix by () This took way too long to figure out. The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and...
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This took way too long to figure out. The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and .arrayBuffer() methods, which aren’t mentioned on MDN. So, assuming you’re in an action and the argument is args, you can get the body like: const body = await...
Copper • A blog...
The complex simplicity of my static websites It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my...
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It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my Computer Architecture teacher stopped in the middle of an assembly exercise to tell us that Bitdefender is hiring juniors for Malware Researcher positions. I had no idea what that...
Evan Jones -...
Network Latencies in the Data Center Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at...
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over a year ago
Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at LADIS), which included "round trip within same data center" as 500 us. I was recently wondering if that is still true, and more importantly what does the distribution of latencies...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“The macOS App Icon Book” IRL Guess what I received in the mail today? You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it...
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a year ago
Guess what I received in the mail today? You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it anyway: The macOS App Icon Book. (If you didn’t catch it, I’ve written previously about my contribution to its prequel.) This one got funded on Kickstarter a few months back and,...
Grant Slatton
Binary IQ A model of LLM capability
8 months ago
Quentin Santos
Beware Rust Buffering This article is about a small pitfall I stumbled uopen Rust. Since it took me relatively too much...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
This article is about a small pitfall I stumbled uopen Rust. Since it took me relatively too much time to figure it out, I made this article as a reminder. Also, there is a post scriptum, also about buffers, but not about Rust. While writing my article about Linux pipes, I needed...
Daniel Marino
What I’m Using in 2025 I’ve always been fascinated to see what other apps or workflows others are using in their day-to-day...
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I’ve always been fascinated to see what other apps or workflows others are using in their day-to-day lives. Every now and then I learn about a new app or some cool trick I didn’t previously know. I doubt anyone seriously cares about what I’m using, but figured I’d list them out...
Steve Klabnik
A blip in time
over a year ago
Yale e360
Reflecting on 2022, Looking Ahead to 2023 This is one of those cliched posts: Reflection on the year that's ending, and talking about goals...
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over a year ago
This is one of those cliched posts: Reflection on the year that's ending, and talking about goals and whatnot for next year. They're cliche, but they're also useful. The planning and reflecting process is a useful one, and sharing openly means other people can come along and...
Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with nanosecond sorting If the operation you want to speed-up already runs in a few nano-seconds, your reasoning about...
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over a year ago
If the operation you want to speed-up already runs in a few nano-seconds, your reasoning about algorithmic complexity probably wouldn't apply. The most effective algorithms become mediocre while the useless rise from the oblivion to shine and amaze. One of these algorithms is the...
David Heinemeier...
Negative visualization in practice The most counterintuitive of the Stoic mental exercises is that of negative visualization. Willfully...
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The most counterintuitive of the Stoic mental exercises is that of negative visualization. Willfully imagining all manner of terrible things that might befall you, but haven't yet. Described like this, it sorta sounds like a fancy word of anxiety, but if you look closer, it's in...
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VC is a tool, not a religion We raised over $27,000,000 then realized we should be growing out of our own revenue instead. Day 1...
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We raised over $27,000,000 then realized we should be growing out of our own revenue instead. Day 1 – We started bootstrapping, then changed our minds…
Charles Chen
Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode - Try Code Reviews Instead In the emerging age of AI generated code, is leetcode really the best way to evaluate technical...
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Pessimism is on the retreat I feel it in the feed. I feel it in the discourse. I smell it in the vibes.  Much of the pessimism...
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a year ago
I feel it in the feed. I feel it in the discourse. I smell it in the vibes.  Much of the pessimism that once was is lost, for none now wish to remember it. We’ve lived through some strange years in the recent past. Much stranger than any I can remember since my earliest, solid...
Yale e360
Parallel assignment: a Python idiom cleverly optimized
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Starlit sky Brutalist planter with attached drip tray, 2024 Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
a year ago
Making software...
Do You Have an Extra $10? Do You Have an Extra $10? 2022-11-23 As software designers and developers, think of all the little...
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over a year ago
Do You Have an Extra $10? 2022-11-23 As software designers and developers, think of all the little things that we spend $10 on. Maybe it's a couple coffees over the course of a week. Maybe it's a TV streaming subscription. Maybe it's an impulse buy while we're out shopping for...
Liz Denys
Early one morning The view shortly after waking up while camping at Marshall Beach, Point Reyes.
over a year ago
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Temporal - the iPhone of System Design Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it...
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Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it is eating the world.
Eric Bailey
Harm reduction principles for digital accessibility practitioners I debuted these principles in my axe-con 2025 talk, It is designed to break your heart: Cultivating...
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I debuted these principles in my axe-con 2025 talk, It is designed to break your heart: Cultivating a harm reduction mindset as an accessibility practitioner. They are adapted from The National Harm Reduction Coalition’s original eight principles. My adapted principles reflect...
Elad Blog
Anduril & Defense Tech The last year has demonstrated repeatedly the lack of societal preparation for multiple forms of...
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The last year has demonstrated repeatedly the lack of societal preparation for multiple forms of threats to our country and world. Examples of this include issues responding to the COVID pandemic, the cybersecurity ransomware attacks on critical US infrastructure such as our
Tinloof - Blog
Managing Tinloof-powered websites If your website was built by Tinloof, you should be able to self-manage it without any guide. We...
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If your website was built by Tinloof, you should be able to self-manage it without any guide. We wrote this article just to make sure you're not missing out on any feature that helps you manage your website more effectively. Navigating the CMS
bt RSS Feed
Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD 2023-06-13 It is no secret that OpenBSD has poor...
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Over the last four years, I’ve been helping TokyoDev with UX, design, and frontend development. One project I’ve been working on is improving our branding. Today, I’m delighted to introduce the results of it: TokyoDev’s new logo. ![Our new...
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I’ve been reading Steven Sinofsky’s Hardcore Software, and particularly enjoyed this quote from a memo discussed in the Zero Defects chapter: You can improve the quality of your code, and if you do, the rewards for yourself and for Microsoft will be immense. The hardest part is...
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In my recent travels around Asia [http://instagram.com/joelgascoigne], I’ve had the great opportunity to meet a lot of local founders and aspiring entrepreneurs. One of the things that seems to come up many times is that people will ask me “what triggered you to become...
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"pogo oscillation occurs when a surge in engine pressure increases back pressure against the fuel coming into the engine, reducing engine pressure, causing more fuel to come in and increasing engine pressure again." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_oscillation
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Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the fact that I can give public links to others as an easy way to send large files. Recently though, a few links of mine were getting pretty popular and I received the following very...
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In this Dispatch, we’ll introduce you to two new projects at the lab: exploring writing environments for science papers and local-first access control. We also have some updates on WASM packaging for Automerge, and a new researcher-in-residence.
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The Moscow mule is one of my favorite cocktails because it’s simple, easy to make and delicious. This is a guide to making the perfect Mule. The Perfect Copper Mug The copper mug is essential for a real Moscow Mule. Copper immediately takes on the temperature of the drink keeping...
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As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now everyone wants to see how Generative AI intersects with everything. The fits are not completely natural, as Generative AI like Chat GPT is more NLP type systems, but there are a...
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The Ware for February 2023 is shown below. Just a small portion of the ware is shown here to make things a bit more challenging. If after a week it turns out to be too hard to guess based on the subtle details included in this image, I’ll add another image to this post with […]
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Introduction Friendly Fire needs to periodically execute scheduled jobs - to remind Slack users to review GitHub pull requests. Instead of bolting on a new system just for this, I decided to leverage Postgres instead. The must-have requirement was the ability to schedule a job...
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If you need to extract text from websites to feed into LLMs, this easy solution will get you started with just a few lines of code.
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I managed the engineering team at Digg as we ran out of money, and were eventually acquired. It was an eye opening experience, and I learned a great deal about the reality and the optics of selling a company, particularly one with no money and a shrinking user base. Humbling was...
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Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a design that gives writers privacy while still offering editors transparency into how a document is changing.
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ASAP ¶ASAP When asking for something, it’s really pointless to attach the typical “as soon as possible” to the end. Here’s why: What I think you mean when you use the phrase “as soon as possible” or, even worse, “ASAP”: I really want this now or sooner. I don’t care what you’re...
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Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Today marks ten years since I launched the first version of Buffer. What started as a landing page to gauge interest, and then a very basic product that I worked on alone, has become so much more. Buffer is now a
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I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with Blender Geometry and Shader Nodes.Specifically here using Instances on Points. I started with a 60 x 60 grid of curves, made into spirals and animated with a Noise texture. This ended up creating 8.3 Million faces and took 12 hours to...
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As the shedding of the luck-bean tree forms coral carpets on the grass below; as the birds begin their morning song earlier into the fourth watch of the night, calling the sun to come out to play; as new flowering greens shoot out of chronic brown branches; urban nature dances to...
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Understanding easing and cubic-bezier curves in CSS The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS...
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The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS cubic-bezier curves, and the art of using them to make the best web animations possible.
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Few numbers exemplified the early growth of Rails like attendance at RailsConf. I think we started with something like 400-600 attendees at the inaugural conference in Chicago in 2006, then just kept doubling year over year, as Rails went to the moon. If memory serves me right,...
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the "Lite" variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean. Please note that while I...
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<code>contrast-color()</code> is a good thing, but also solving the problem at the wrong layer Browsers are a failure of imagination. I understand that new browser features and functionality need...
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Browsers are a failure of imagination. I understand that new browser features and functionality need to be rolled out with care, in that you need to accommodate a wide range of technological literacy and familiarity. This is to say nothing of built-up muscle memory and the risk...
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Running Docker without Docker Desktop Docker is great. Docker Desktop sucks. Here's my fix.
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My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we struggled with as a working group was that we would specify how the technology should work, but the browser vendors' implementations weren't exactly what we intended, and web authors...
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New linkblog website I launched a new website for my linkblog; go check it out! I'm proud of how it looks. My linkblog...
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I launched a new website for my linkblog; go check it out! I'm proud of how it looks. My linkblog is a collection of links I find interesting. I write it for an audience, a few links a day of general interest. I've been doing this for 19 years now and I think it's one of the...
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The 80s are still alive in Denmark I grew up in the 80s in Copenhagen and roamed the city on my own from an early age. My parents...
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I grew up in the 80s in Copenhagen and roamed the city on my own from an early age. My parents rarely had any idea where I went after school, as long as I was home by dinner. They certainly didn’t have direct relationships with the parents of my friends. We just figured things...
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Unsupervised Learning: Clustering Single Linkage, K-Means, Soft Clustering, and Kleinberg Impossibility
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Setting Up a Free SSL 2018-08-07 I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally hosted my blog through Github Pages, but since switching over to Surge.sh I lost my ability to utilize https protocol. Luckily, Cloudflare offers a very simple way to implement SSL on...
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The merchants of complexity thrive when they can scare you into believing that even the simplest things are too dangerous to even attempt by yourself these days. That without their rarified expertise, you’ll be left vulnerable. So best just to leave ever-more of your burdens to...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to get programming experience when you can’t find a job? Hello Torb, So I’ve seen this question pop out several times, and I understand the frustration of...
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Hello Torb, So I’ve seen this question pop out several times, and I understand the frustration of not being considered […] The post How to get programming experience when you can’t find a job? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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My Pardot landing page starter kit Over the past year, I’ve built an increasing amount of Pardot landing pages in my day to day role. I...
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Over the past year, I’ve built an increasing amount of Pardot landing pages in my day to day role. I think landing pages are a really…
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Gather 'round, it's story time. A number of years ago, I was hired by a company to rebuild a component library for their design system. The one they were replacing was built with AngularJS, but AngularJS was old and rickety and nobody wanted to use it anymore. Plus, many teams...
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How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog Windows’s win32 API is old and crufty. Many things that are trivial to do in HTML are difficult in win32. One of those things is changing size of font used by your native, desktop app. I encountered this in...
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Jerod has a good post on The Changelog contrasting the different ways of measuring impact. One way to measure impact is breadth (i.e. virality): Virality is all about breadth of impact: your content reaching as many people as possible as fast as possible. This feels great and is...
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Supervised Learning: VC Dimensions It's not venture capital, that's for sure
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Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user: One-time payment Recurring payment Free tier...
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I had not come across this graphic from swyx until recently: I like this reminder. I know for me, it’s often too easy to slip into a kind of cynicism that only sees endless stationary circles rather than ones with directional momentum. It reminds me of the visualizations of...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Just Build Websites Here’s something you might not know about me: I like to play golf. As such, I follow a couple of...
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Here’s something you might not know about me: I like to play golf. As such, I follow a couple of golf-related brands on social media as a guilty pleasure. The other day an image surfaced on Taylormade’s account which showcases Tommy Fleetwood playing some of their newest...
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content slop AI slop is everywhere. But what even is slop and is AI really to blame?
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You can own more than one type of computer! I probably wouldn't have done a deep dive on Apple alternatives without the announcement that they...
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I probably wouldn't have done a deep dive on Apple alternatives without the announcement that they were killing progressive web apps (PWAs) on the iPhone in the EU. Most people don't switch operating systems willy-nilly, and for good reason: They're different! And different is...
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It's getting hard to use and recommend Firefox, I'm afraid for the free web A couple of months ago, every video call I had on my personal computer ended up using Chromium. I...
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A couple of months ago, every video call I had on my personal computer ended up using Chromium. I tried using Firefox and it looked good on my end: I could see and hear the other person. But they just saw a blank video feed and heard nothing. Firefox showed me that it's sending,...
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Here are some notes on migrating a signed zone from BIND’s old auto-dnssec to its new dnssec-policy. I have been procrastinating this migration for years, and I avoided learning anything much about dnssec-policy until this month. I’m writing this from the perspective of a DNS...
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Array 1.15.0 Hey there! It's been a while... With our last release being over a month ago, this new release has...
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Hey there! It's been a while... With our last release being over a month ago, this new release has the largest changelog to date, with 175 PRs merged…
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Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201...
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Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201 to start using as my daily driver. I purchased the X201 to replace my existing X260. Although some might look at this as a "downgrade" in terms of specs and hardware, I would have...
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Trying to get past the 500 nits limit of the MacBook Pro (and failing) Update: I finally found a way to go over the limit in Lunar v5.5.1 Exactly 3 months and a day...
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Update: I finally found a way to go over the limit in Lunar v5.5.1 Exactly 3 months and a day after placing an order through a Romanian Apple reseller, I finally got my 14-inch M1 Max. Well, actually.. I first got the wrong configuration (base model instead of CTO), had to...
A Smart Bear
"ROI" is the wrong way to sell your product Customers ask for ROI calculations to justify purchasing your software, but it still doesn't...
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Customers ask for ROI calculations to justify purchasing your software, but it still doesn't convince them. Here's what to do instead.
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Writing my first Security blogpost Today's fun emergency at work was a first - writing a security postmortem for a breach of an _open...
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Today's fun emergency at work was a first - writing a security postmortem for a breach of an _open source user_ (aka not a breach of us, which seems the norm).
Identity Designed
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SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS 2021-05-29 A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a...
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SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS 2021-05-29 A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a first-person sci-fi horror-adventure game. The story was intriguing and the developers nailed the overall atmosphere of Pathos-II. Though both those aspects were great, what I found...
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I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon! To those who are not familiar, Lorem Ipsum is a piece of latin text, comprised of multiple paragraphs, that is used as a placeholder during the design process of building a page
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In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted conversations blended into a […] The post Aging Code appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Similar to how every custom element must contain a dash, I like to pretend that every custom event must also contain a dash. This removes all ambiguity between native events and custom events. Therefore, I prefix all custom events in Shoelace with sl-. It may seem contradictory...
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Have a single definition of “now” I’ve been doing a bunch of datetime debugging recently, and this function has been an amazing...
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I’ve been doing a bunch of datetime debugging recently, and this function has been an amazing help: function today(): Date { return new Date(); } It’s not very sophisticated – it just returns the current time – but we use it everywhere we need to get the current time. (You...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note March 29, 2023: ink track update / thoughts on research direction We want a digital notebook that combines the best of hand-drawn sketching and note-taking with the...
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We want a digital notebook that combines the best of hand-drawn sketching and note-taking with the power of the dynamic computing medium.
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 09 · Version history as chat This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for...
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This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for understanding changes and discussing a work-in-progress document.
Alice GG
Building a container orchestrator Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and...
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Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and learning the surrounding ecosystem is even harder. Even those who have managed to tame it are still afraid of getting paged by an ETCD cluster corruption, a Kubelet certificate...
Vadim Kravcenko
🌈 Hedonic Treadmill I’m sure you’re like me. It happens time and time again that we pour our hearts into achieving...
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I’m sure you’re like me. It happens time and time again that we pour our hearts into achieving something we […] The post 🌈 Hedonic Treadmill appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Tony Finch's blog
A qp-trie for BIND In 2021, I came up with a design for a new memory layout for a qp-trie, and I implemented a...
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In 2021, I came up with a design for a new memory layout for a qp-trie, and I implemented a prototype of the design in NLnet Labs NSD (see my git repo or github). Since I started work at ISC my main project has been to adapt the NSD prototype into a qp-trie for use in BIND. The...
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Building the future of game analytics - An interview with PureSkill.gg CTO, Evan Sosenko Welcome to another episode of PostHog's Community Conversations, where we chat to our contributors...
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Welcome to another episode of PostHog's Community Conversations, where we chat to our contributors and users. This time, we speak to Evan Sosenko, Co…
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How to run finance at your startup without hiring a finance person We run finance at PostHog without a dedicated finance person. This is a comprehensive, step-by-step...
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We run finance at PostHog without a dedicated finance person. This is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to do just that. If you implement…
Ink & Switch
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Introducing Mikochi: a minimalist remote file browser Like many people working in DevOps, I have taken the bad habit to keep playing with servers and...
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Like many people working in DevOps, I have taken the bad habit to keep playing with servers and containers in my free time. One of the things I have running is a Media Server, which I use to access my collection of movies and shows (that I evidently own and ripped myself). To...
alexwlchan
Finding books in nearby library branches I’m trying to make better use of my local public library. I want to read more books, and borrowing...
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I’m trying to make better use of my local public library. I want to read more books, and borrowing from the library keeps the habit sustainable. It also saves a fair bit of money, and I don’t have to decide what to do with books when I’m done. Recently, I built a tool to help me...
A Beautiful Site
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The new :focus-visible CSS selector lets us remove unsightly focus rings that often result in developers adding this to their stylesheets: /* Please don't do this */ button:focus { outline: none; } While unsightly to mouse users, a clear focus indicator is essential for proper...
alexwlchan
Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools...
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Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools to take screenshots, and I love them as a way to take quick snapshots and skim the history of a site, but bitmap images aren’t a great archival representation of a website. What...
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When creating new habits, let yourself be sloppy * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Don’t let...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good" - Gretchen Ruben [http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2012/12/secret-of-adulthood-dont-let-the-perfect-be-the-enemy-of-the-good/] One...
macwright.com
Recently 2024 Happy end-of-2024! It’s been a pretty good year overall. I’m thankful. There’s no way that I’ll be...
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Happy end-of-2024! It’s been a pretty good year overall. I’m thankful. There’s no way that I’ll be able to remember and carve out the time around New Years to write this, so here’s some end-of-year roundup, ahead of schedule! Running This was my biggest year for running on...
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CSS: Indenting Text CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to...
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CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to implementing proper website typography. This isn't an insult - I'm happy that typography is given any thought at all during development, I just believe more can always be done to...
A Smart Bear
Distinguishing constructive criticism from bad business advice Beware of advice that tries to change who you are. True wisdom guides you to a better version of...
a year ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware June 2024 The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top...
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The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top side heatsinks removed. I’ll give the prize to Alex, for the thoughtful details related in the comments. Congrats, email me for your prize! I chose this portion of the miner to...
Making software...
Styling Empty Table Cells Styling Empty Table Cells 2019-07-17 Often when designing tables on the web you're bound to come...
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Styling Empty Table Cells 2019-07-17 Often when designing tables on the web you're bound to come across empty pockets of data. These will be rendered as "blank" table cells, which isn't always the intended outcome. Let's take a quick look at how to target and style empty table...
HTMHell
Improving User Experience for Multilingual Web Browsing by Anastasiia Batarei Today, I’d like to talk about the experience of browsing websites where...
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by Anastasiia Batarei Today, I’d like to talk about the experience of browsing websites where content is fully or partially in a language different from the user’s native one. This situation is common for users navigating government portals or local service providers in a country...
TokyoDev
If You Want To Hire Great Engineers, Let Engineers Do The Hiring Hiring great engineers is not just about evaluating technical skills. It’s about finding passionate...
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Hiring great engineers is not just about evaluating technical skills. It’s about finding passionate individuals who align with your mission. It’s about building a team that can turn your vision into reality. To make this happen, a solid interview process is your best tool....
Nelson's Weblog
Angkor Wat resources I took an amazing trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time finding good...
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3 months ago
I took an amazing trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time finding good reading or other resources to learn from before I went, in part because Amazon is awash in AI garbage. Here’s some books and podcasts I found useful about the Khmer empire in...
The Codist
The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Estimates In my long career, I've dealt with many different kinds of estimating, from the early days in the...
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over a year ago
In my long career, I've dealt with many different kinds of estimating, from the early days in the 1980s when there was no estimating because no one had any idea how to do it to my last job where estimation was always demanded but never actually relevant. In
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How we raised $3M for an open source project Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have...
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Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have significant funding and wanted to share what we did…
alexwlchan
randline: get a random selection of lines in a file using reservoir sampling I’ve posted another command-line tool on GitHub: randline, which gives you a random selection of...
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I’ve posted another command-line tool on GitHub: randline, which gives you a random selection of lines in a file: $ randline < /usr/share/dict/words ultraluxurious $ randline 3 < /usr/share/dict/words unexceptionably baselessness salinity There are lots of tools that solve...
Joel Gascoigne
How an investor who turned me down ended up sleeping on my couch * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last week I had...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last week I had the great pleasure of grabbing dinner with Jon Bradford [http://twitter.com/jd], and having him stop over at my place on his way to speak on a panel at an event in Jerusalem. The...
Making software...
RSS Hacks With XSLT RSS Hacks With XSLT 2022-05-23 In my spare time I've been further tinkering (hopefully for the...
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over a year ago
RSS Hacks With XSLT 2022-05-23 In my spare time I've been further tinkering (hopefully for the better) with my humble Shinobi Website[^0] script. The most recent update in patch-1 came with a solid amount of QoL improvements. If you're interested, I wrote about it on the official...
ByteofDev
State of the Web: Deno What is Deno, why does it matter, and how is it currently used for server-side JavaScript?
over a year ago
Irrational...
Diagnosis in engineering strategy. Once you’ve written your strategy’s exploration, the next step is working on its...
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4 months ago
Once you’ve written your strategy’s exploration, the next step is working on its diagnosis. Diagnosis is understanding the constraints and challenges your strategy needs to address. In particular, it’s about doing that understanding while slowing yourself down from deciding how...
Remains of the Day
Catch up It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some trips with family and friends, a few creative projects have stolen the lion's share of my free time. While I won't publish some Medium screed on how spending less time on social...
Steve Klabnik
Hackety Hack v1.0
over a year ago
Basta’s Notes
What I have been so busy with How I built a website that lots of you will probably hate
a year ago
Liz Denys
Reasons to kick Peter Thiel off Facebook's board There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about...
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over a year ago
There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about the threat he poses. Many of the arguments are centered around diversity, which is a tenet Facebook says it deeply values. The ways Thiel fails to value diversity matter: his...
Tinloof - Blog
How to make your own SplitPane React component with 0 dependencies A SplitPane is a collection of 2 elements whose heights can be changed by dragging a line that...
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over a year ago
A SplitPane is a collection of 2 elements whose heights can be changed by dragging a line that separates them. Based on its layout, a SplitPane can be horizontal or vertical. If you've ever used the Chrome dev tools, you probably came across both versions of the SplitPane. For...
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Cancer and revenue - the latest board meeting It has been a dramatic month. Four weeks ago, our 16 month old daughter was diagnosed with ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It has been a dramatic month. Four weeks ago, our 16 month old daughter was diagnosed with retinoblastoma - a fairly rare form of cancer that…
bt RSS Feed
89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 2021-04-22 This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I...
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over a year ago
89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 2021-04-22 This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I have switched back to Jekyll for performance reasons. I’ll be leaving this post up as a point of reference though :) This is my personal blog (if that wasn’t already obvious). I...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Tradeoffs to Continuous Software? I came across this post from the tech collective crftd. about how software is in a process of...
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a month ago
I came across this post from the tech collective crftd. about how software is in a process of “continuous disintegration”: One of the uncomfortable truths we sometimes have to break to people is that software isn't just never “done”. Worse even, it rots… The practices of...
Founder's blog
Clearing Nginx Proxy Cache for Wildcard URLs: A DIY Guide Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you need to clear the Nginx proxy cache for a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you need to clear the Nginx proxy cache for a specific set of URLs, particularly those following a wildcard pattern like www.website.com/folder/*. Surprisingly, Nginx, in its standard offering, doesn't provide a straightforward way...
Irrational...
Notes on Enterprise Architecture as Strategy Enterprise Architecture as Strategy by Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David C Robertson is an...
a year ago
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a year ago
Enterprise Architecture as Strategy by Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David C Robertson is an interesting read on how integrating technology across business units shifts the company’sstrategy landscape. Written in 2006, case studies are not particularly current but the ideas...
Ink & Switch
03 · Fine-grained provenance Connecting parts of source and build files as a universal primitive
9 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Knowledge Laundering I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took notes on — and this excerpt talking about large language models (LLMs) stood out to me: Why give somebody credit for the lines of code you’ve adapted for your own project when you...
Alex MacCaw
We Won’t Save the Planet by Shrinking At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less consumption, smaller footprints. I believed this too—so much so that I once thought having kids was irresponsible. But the more I looked into it, the less sense it made.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Your Greatest Strength Is Also Your Greatest Weakness Referring to product management, my old boss used to say, “There is no right or wrong, only...
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Referring to product management, my old boss used to say, “There is no right or wrong, only trade-offs.” This applies to technology too (and, if you really think about it, life generally — but we won’t go that far). As an example, what makes npm great? It’s so easy to install a...
the singularity is...
…and now we see what is possible Every 70 years America goes through a revolutionary transition. Washington, Lincoln, FDR, now? The...
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8 months ago
Every 70 years America goes through a revolutionary transition. Washington, Lincoln, FDR, now? The Republicans now control the Presidency, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court. Is that everything? Does government power lie there, like we are told, or is it all secretly...
General Robots
Correct vs Good What's the difference?
4 months ago
blag
Projects Some of the projects I have done.
over a year ago
Copper • A blog...
A window switcher on the Mac App Store? Is it even possible? Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience. Another email,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience. Another email, another annoyed user: Firefox not loading websites when launched through rcmd! It works when launched from Alfred.. Please fix ASAP!! I’m gonna fix this Firefox issue once and for...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“The iOS App Icon Book” in Japanese Seeing something you made put in print is exciting. Seeing something you made translated and put in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Seeing something you made put in print is exciting. Seeing something you made translated and put in print, well that’s pretty damn exciting too. Such was the feeling when I opened my copy of the Japanese translation of The iOS App Icon Book. While the core idea of the book...
MMapped blog
A swarm of replicated state machines
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
Recording: Six Key Performance Engineering Lessons from 1BRC Last night we did this live session on performance engineering.
9 months ago
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Array 1.0.0 This is the first of (what we hope are many) PostHog weekly roundup posts. We want to let the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is the first of (what we hope are many) PostHog weekly roundup posts. We want to let the community know what we have been up to, a few of our…
Jake Zimmerman
Why don’t constructors have override checking?
a year ago